Weissenhof photo apartment house Mies van der Rohe Stuttgart Germany 2005-10-08

The Deutscher Werkbund (English: "German Association of Craftsmen"; ) is a German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists established in 1907. The Werkbund became an important element in the development of

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and industrial design, particularly in the later creation of the

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...

school of design. Its initial purpose was to establish a partnership of product manufacturers with design professionals to improve the competitiveness of German companies in global markets. The Werkbund was less an artistic movement than a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial

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techniques, to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States. Its motto ''Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau'' (from sofa cushions to city-building) indicates its range of interest.

History

The Deutscher Werkbund emerged when the architect

Joseph Maria Olbrich Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December 1867 – 8 August 1908) was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders. Early life Olbrich was born in Opava, Austrian Silesia (now Czech Republic), the third child of Edmund and Aloisia O ...

left Vienna for

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, Germany, in 1899, to form an artists' colony at the invitation of

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.Wendy Moonan (7 December 2007)
German Design for an Industrial Age
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''. The Werkbund was founded by Olbrich,

Peter Behrens Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and i ...

Richard Riemerschmid Richard Riemerschmid (20 June 1868 – 13 April 1957) was a German architect, painter, designer and city planner from Munich. He was a major figure in ''Jugendstil'', the German form of Art Nouveau, and a founder of architecture in the s ...

Bruno Paul Bruno Paul (19 January 1874 – 17 August 1968) was a German architect, illustrator, interior designer, and furniture designer. Trained as a painter in the royal academy just as the Munich Secession developed against academic art, he first ca ...

and others in 1907 in

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at the instigation of

Hermann Muthesius Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within German ...

, existed through 1934, then re-established after

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in 1950. Muthesius was the author of the exhaustive three-volume "The English House" of 1905, a survey of the practical lessons of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Muthesius was seen as something of a cultural ambassador, or industrial spy, between Germany and England. The organization originally included twelve architects and twelve business firms. The architects include

Theodor Fischer Theodor Fischer (28 May 1862 – 25 December 1938) was a German architect and teacher. Career Fischer planned public housing projects for the city of Munich beginning in 1893. He was the joint founder and first chairman of the Deutscher Wer ...

(who served as its first president),

Josef Hoffmann Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian- Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet Pa ...

Max Laeuger Max Laeuger (30 September 1864 – 12 December 1952) was a German architect, artist, and ceramicist. He was born and died in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg. Working initially in an Art Nouveau style, he was perhaps the most important figure ...

and

. Other architects affiliated with the project include

Heinrich Tessenow Heinrich Tessenow (7 April 1876 – 1 November 1950) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era. Biography Tessenow is considered together with Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, Fritz Höger, Ernst ...

and the Belgian

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

. By 1914 it had 1,870 members, including heads of museums.Joan Campbell, ''The German Werkbund: The Politics of Reform in the Applied Arts'' (Princeton University Press, 2016) The Werkbund commissioned van de Velde to design a

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for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in

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. The exhibition was closed and the buildings dismantled ahead of schedule because of the outbreak of World War I.

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was made corresponding member of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1914 and was invited to participate in the 1914 Cologne exhibition. Among the Werkbund's more noted members was the architect

Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...

, who served as Architectural Director.

Key dates of the Deutscher Werkbund

* 1907, Establishment of the Werkbund in Munich * 1910,

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, Paris * 1914, Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne * 1920,

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becomes the first female Director * 1924, Berlin exhibition * 1927, Stuttgart exhibition (including the

Weissenhof Estate The Weissenhof Estate (German: Weißenhofsiedlung) is a housing estate built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. It was an international showcase of modern architecture's aspiration to provide cheap, simple, effici ...

) * 1929, Breslau exhibition * 1934, Werkbund declare dissolution * 1947, Reestablishment

100th anniversary

The ''

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'' (Association of German Industrial Designers, or VDID) and the ''Bund Deutscher Grafik-Designer'' (Federation of German Graphic Designers, or "BDG-

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") held a joint meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Deutscher Werkbund. A juried exhibition and opening was held on 14 March 2008.Werkbund Museum
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Museum der Dinge

The collections and archives (Werkbundarchiv) of the Werkbund are housed at the Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) in

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. The museum is focused on design and objects used in everyday life in the 20th century up to the present. Among other exhibits, it includes a

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Members

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* Anker-Werke Delmenhorst *

Ferdinand Avenarius Ferdinand Avenarius (20 December 1856, in Berlin – 22 September 1923, in Kampen) was a German lyric poet, a leading representative of the culture reform movement of his time and the first popularizer of Sylt. Life Avenarius was born in Berlin. ...

Otto Bartning Otto Bartning (12 April 1883 in Karlsruhe – 20 February 1959 in Darmstadt) was a Modernist German architect, architectural theorist and teacher. In his early career he developed plans with Walter Gropius for the establishment of the Bauhaus. H ...

Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born in ...

Adolf Behne Adolf Behne (13 July 1885 – 22 August 1948) was a critic, art historian, architectural writer, and artistic activist. He was one of the leaders of the Avant Garde in the Weimar Republic. Behne was born in Magdeburg and studied architecture br ...

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* Johann Michael Bossard * Raymund Brachmann * Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot *

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* Ulrich Böhme * Max Burchartz *

Charles Crodel Charles Crodel (September 16, 1894 – November 11, 1973) was a German painter and stained glass artist. Life Crodel was born in Marseille, he studied in 1914 with Richard Riemerschmid, one of the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund, at the M ...

Carl Otto Czeschka Carl Otto Czeschka (22 October 1878, Vienna – 30 July, 1960, Hamburg) was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte. Life Carl Otto Czeschka was half Bohemian and half Moravian origin. His father Wen ...

Wilhelm von Debschitz Wilhelm Siegfried Kurt von Debschitz (21 February 1871 – 10 March 1948) was a German painter, interior designer, craftsman, art teacher and founding director of an influential art school in Munich. Early life and education He was born on 2 ...

* Franz Karl Delavilla * Peter A. Demeter *

Walter Dexel Walter Dexel (born 7 February 1890 in Munich, died 8 June 1973 in Braunschweig) was a German painter, commercial graphic designer, and transportation planner. He also functioned as an art historian and directed a museum in Braunschweig during ...

Eugen Diederichs Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930) was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Saxony. Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896. He moved on to Leipzi ...

* Bruno Dörpinghaus * Karl Duschek * Adolph Eckhardt *

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* Albert Eitel *

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* Jupp Ernst *

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germa ...

* Wend Fischer * Karl Ganser *

Hansjörg Göritz Hansjörg Göritz (English: Hansjoerg Goeritz; born 5 June 1959) is a German-American architect, professor, author and designer associated with pure and minimalist architecture that emphasizes place, space, light and material. For his early works ...

* Hermann Gretsch *

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* Moritz Hadda *

Richard Hamann Heinrich Richard Hamann (29 May 1879, in Seehausen – 9 January 1961, in Immenstadt im Allgäu) was a German art historian. He attended the Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg, and later studied Germanistics, art history and philosophy ...

* Luise Harkort *

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* Max Heidrich *

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* Max Hertwig *

Lucy Hillebrand Lucy Hillebrand (6 March 1906, in Mainz – 14 September 1997, in Göttingen) was a German architect. Biography After growing up in an artistic milieu in Mainz, she went on to study architecture under Dominikus Böhm in Cologne. As a result of he ...

Georg Hirth Georg Hirth (13 July 1841 in Tonna – 28 March 1916 in Tegernsee) was a German writer, journalist and publisher. He is best known for founding the cultural magazine '' Jugend'' in 1896, which was instrumental in popularizing Art Nouveau. ...

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* Ot Hoffmann * Helmut Hofmann * Ferdy Horrmeyer *

Paul Horst-Schulze Paul Horst-Schulze (5 October 1876 – 27 December 1937) was a German painter, graphic artist and artisan. His stage name Horst-Schulze came about by combining his middle name with his original family name.Andreas Höhn: ''Werkbundgründer un ...

* Klaus Humpert * Walter Maria Kersting * Harald Kimpel * Moissey Kogan * Hans P. Koellmann * Ludwig König * Ernst Kühn *

Hugo Kükelhaus Hugo Kükelhaus (March 24, 1900 – October 5, 1984) was a German carpenter, writer, pedagogue, philosopher and artist. Kükelhaus is best known for his infant toys "allbedeut" and the " Erfahrungsfeld zur Entfaltung der Sinne." Throughout his li ...

* Klaus Küster * Ferdinand Kramer * Günter Kupetz * Emil Lange * Carl Langhein * Josef Lehmbrock *

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* Johannes Ludovicus Mathieu Lauweriks * Richard Luksch *

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* Wolfgang Meisenheimer *

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* Anna Muthesius *

Friedrich Naumann Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German Liberalism in Germany, liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and ...

* Walter Neuhäusser *

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* Ludwig Paffendorf *

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* Karl Poser * Walfried Pohl * Jan Thorn Prikker * Peter Raacke * Adolf Rading * Jochen Rahe *

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* Albert Reimann *

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Paul Renner Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most ...

* Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko * Gregor Rosenbauer * Walter Rossow * Werner Ruhnau *

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* Willy Schönefeld *

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* Reinhard Schulze *

Fritz Schupp Fritz Schupp (22 December 1896 in Uerdingen – 1 August 1974 in Essen) was a German architect. He was educated from 1914 to 1917 at the Universities of Karlsruhe, München and Stuttgart. Despite mostly working alone, he formed a partnership base ...

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* Rudolf Schwarz *

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* Ferdinand Selle *

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* Anna Simons * Carl Sonntag jun. * Friedrich Spengelin * Bernhard Stadler *

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* Heinz Stoffregen * Ludwig Sütterlin *

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* Paul Thiersch * Emil Thormählen *

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* Theodor Veil *

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* Fritz Wärndorfer * Wilhelm Wagenfeld *

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* Udo Weilacher * Werkbund Werkstatt Nürnberg *

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* Karl With * Dieter Witte * Georg Wrba * Christoph Zöpel * Berta Zuckerkandl

References

External links

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